linaire
French, noun/li.nɛʁ/
linaire is spelled L-I-N-A-I-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 20 million words in written French, the 146,077th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Linaire is a French feminine noun meaning “toadflax (plant of the genus Linaria)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante herbacée du genre Chaenorhinum dont les feuilles ressemblent à celles du lin”.
What does linaire mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetoadflax (plant of the genus Linaria)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante herbacée du genre Chaenorhinum dont les feuilles ressemblent à celles du lin. 2. Plante herbacée du genre Linaria de la famille des Plantaginaceae.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of linaire
- linaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce linaire?
- /li.nɛʁ/
- \li.nɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to linaire
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is linaire in French?
linaire appears about once in every 20 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).